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The game between labor and capital has penetrated into all aspects of this business society. Of course Murphy and his Stanton studio are no exceptions. As he said before, few fools will listen to people’s mouths. Trembling, like meeting God, willing to serve others in vain.

Like his filming and production team, they have been closely behind these years. In addition to Murphy's ability to bring them fame, there are also high incomes in the industry compared to the same industry.

Leonardo DiCaprio is indeed worth 20 million US dollars, but Murphy’s previous idea, Xiao Li is anxious to hit the best actor Oscar, maybe he will cut his salary for this, so that he can also profit from it, but It turns out that Leonardo DiCaprio is not stupid either.

Both people want to profit from each other, but they don't want to make too many compromises. The negotiation can only break down.

Of course, Leonardo DiCaprio and Murphy's desire to cooperate with superstars are inseparable.

When the negotiations broke down, he threw away all these thoughts. The 20 million dollar salary was not as good as paying Leonardo DiCaprio.

Murphy settled his mind that the leading actor in this autobiographical film had better use someone from Stanton's party.

After entering February, the time for the eighty-first Oscar awards ceremony is getting closer and closer, and news related to Oscars is now a hot topic.

"Are you going to the Oscars ceremony?"

In the restaurant, Gal Gadot was eating his own vegetable salad while chatting with Murphy. Both of them now have their own work to be busy. Especially Gal Gadot has to prepare while studying the producer course. Graduation thesis, but no matter how busy they are, they will have dinner together. They all need time to communicate and cohere, even if the topics they talk about are gossip gossip.

Gal Gadot put down his knife and fork and looked at Murphy. "There has been no news from the police?"

Murphy shook his head and swallowed the food in his mouth. "No, this kind of thing is hard to investigate?"

He thought for a while, then said, "I'm not going to the awards ceremony."

Hearing Murphy say this, Gal Gadot laughed happily. Regardless of whether the threatening incident was a prank or not, Murphy would always feel more at ease if Murphy did not take risks.

Murphy took the initiative to change the subject and talked about the gossip in the circle, "You know, the hottest entertainment news right now is not Oscar."

Gal Gadot also came interested, "Oscar is being grabbed the limelight again?"

In February and March every year, the center of the topic in Hollywood is basically the Oscar awards ceremony, but with the decline of Oscar's influence in recent years, there are always people who jump out to grab the Oscar's limelight during this time period.

"Who is it this time?" she asked curiously.

Murphy took his napkin and wiped his mouth, and said, "Tom Cruise."

"He's getting a divorce again?" This was Gal Gadot's first reaction.

It's no wonder that she would react like this. Hollywood has been rumored that Katie Helms was not Tom Cruise's choice at all, but a wife carefully selected for him by the Scientology he believed in.

Murphy also knew why Gal Gadot thought this way.

It is said that Tom Cruise has been controlled by Scientology for nearly thirty years, and even three wives have been selected by the church.

"You are not allowed to make any jokes about homosexuality, and you are not allowed to add spoof titles to movies in which Tom Cruise participates. Marriage: Impossible' (unspecified marriage); must not talk to anyone about Mr. Cruise's male friend; must live in accordance with the regulations of the Galactic Planet Federation..."

These strange and harsh terms are the details of the prenuptial agreement between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, which is rumored within Hollywood.

In addition to being dumbfounded by the number of thousands of agreements, the circle also expressed confusion about the "Scientology" provisions in the agreement. For example: "Once Xenu returns to Earth, Katie Helms must accompany Tom- Cruise boarded the aircraft carrier or ship chosen by her husband, otherwise all his property would be confiscated."

The most popular saying at present is that the marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Helms is just a play, and each takes what he needs. The sole purpose of Tom Cruise’s marriage is to express loyalty to Scientology and avoid homosexuality. rumor.

Although this prenuptial agreement cannot be verified as true or false, it does push the religion of Scientology, which is full of "cult" colors, to the fore.

Even Murphy has heard more incredible rumors.

It is said that shortly after the filming of the film "Magnolia" in 1999, Tom Cruise received an invitation that could not be refused. The invitation came from the management of Science Education. They politely asked him to attend class and participate in the so-called "possible trouble" "Source oppressor" training class.

The purpose of the course is to consolidate the beliefs of believers, and at the same time, to find out exactly the cause of the problems in the lives of believers-the "oppressor". It is precisely because of the existence of the "oppressor" that Scientologists cannot successfully walk on the bridge to "For the journey, in the eyes of senior Scientology, the source of Tom Cruise's trouble was his second wife, Nicole Kidman.

The alert began in an interview with Nicole Kidman by Newsweek in the United States at the end of 1998. In an interview, Nicole Kidman said: "I believe in a little Buddhism and a little Scientology. But I have been a Catholic since I was a child, and I am still a Catholic to a large extent today."

In the eyes of Scientology executives, this is not a good phenomenon, because Nicole Kidman married a living sign of Scientology, and her impure beliefs made her a "possible source of trouble."

As a result, everyone saw the subsequent results.

Similar rumors exist between Tom Cruise and Katie Helms.

In 2005, in order to respond to outside speculation that "Tom Cruise is gay" and to restore his image of a healthy and mighty hero among movie fans, Scientology began to secretly find suitable marriage partners for him among Hollywood actresses. Candidates include Scarlett Johansson and Sophia Vergara, and the church has also promised privately that it will bring huge business returns and financial benefits to Tom Cruise's new lover.

Many rumors are not groundless. The details of some rumors make it difficult to distinguish between true and false. Murphy heard Robert Downey Jr. mentioned that Hollywood star Will Smith, who is also a Scientology believer, first introduced Tom Cruise to Tom Cruise. Sophia Vergara, the lesser-known actress at the time felt pretty good about Tom Cruise.

Later, Sofia Vergara was arranged to visit the "Scientology Hollywood Celebrity Center" in Los Angeles. However, this trip completely changed Sophia Vergara's view of this marriage. She thought Scientology was very boring and expressed her reluctance. Join the teaching.

This marriage fell through.

But "Scientology" did not give up. It was also this year that Tom Cruise personally served as the producer of "Mission Impossible 3". Scientology hopes to use the heroine of the film as a bait to attract those who have not really Popular Hollywood actress.

Scarlett Johansson and Katie Holmes, now Tom Cruise’s wife, were both shortlisted. The end result was that Scarlett Johansson had no interest in Tom Cruise and Scientology, and did not do anything at all. In response to any response, although Katie Helms did not get the heroine of the film, she became the object of Tom Cruise's relationship.

Speaking of which, Katie Helms is not the most beautiful of the people, nor the youngest, but the most important thing is that she can accept and support Scientology and promise to sign the secrets of Scientology. protocol.

"In the past few years, Tom Cruise has not been very smooth." Gal Gadot also knows a little about the Hollywood superstar. "It is said that he also has conflicts with Scientology, and he has been cooperating with Paramount Pictures. The relationship between industries is not very good either."

"Just this morning." Murphy said of this gossip that could steal the Oscars' limelight. "Summer Redstone personally announced to the public that Paramount Pictures has ended its cooperation with Tom Cruise. "

Gal Gadot thought for a moment, and asked, "Didn't they cooperate for more than ten years? How come it suddenly broke."

Murphy shrugged, "Same as the negotiation between Leonardo DiCaprio and me, it's the issue of distribution of benefits."

Paramount Pictures interrupted its more than ten-year partnership with Tom Cruise, and this parting way brought a lot of shock to Hollywood.

This marked the start of Hollywood’s large and medium-sized film companies, including Stanton Studios, to their spoiled celebrities. The domino effect then appeared. ABC TV cancelled the alliance with Harrison Ford’s DreamWorks. A production deal for a miniature series about the "Holocaust"; Morgan Creek Production Company was also angered by the bad performance of actress Lindsay Lohan on the set and directly changed actors; Stanton Studios also changed one after another. The two actresses in "Game of Thrones", especially the role of Natalie Dormer, who shouted a substantial increase in salary that was inconsistent with her identity, died directly in the new season...

Superstars are a kind of scarce resource, but when superstars' asking prices are getting higher and higher and taking away more and more production factories and distributors' profits, the capital that pursues profit maximization finally chooses in this era when superstars' appeal is declining. , To restrict the celebrity family.

Hollywood studios can be said to have been fed up with the wild asking prices of celebrities, and ultimately caused a huge reversal of the industry's pendulum: What are the factors that make up a celebrity's strength and how big a celebrity's strength can be. Let investors and the actual market appeal call the shots.

In this era of severe homogeneity of Hollywood commercial films and the main visual effects, the pulling effect of superstars on a film has undoubtedly been significantly reduced. More and more commercial productions are abandoning first-line superstars in favor of some Relatively cheap actors.

Tom Cruise is the inevitable victim of this reality.

As for why the operation was done against him, from Murphy's point of view, who would the production company and investors choose if they did not use him?